Engineering drawings in Carbide Create

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Every so often we get questions on how to go about this in Carbide Create — here’s a recent request:

In Carbide Create start by making a stock size suited to the part, setting the zero to the center (useful as a visual indication) and the grid size to a number which matches the dimensions:

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Draw in a series of circles centered on the stock which match the diameters which will be needed:

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Then begin drawing in the circles, centered on the appropriate points:

Some circles will need to be rotated around the center so as to bring them into position:

Thus:

Repeat that for each circle, rotating it into the appropriate position.

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Worked up a similar design on the wiki:

https://wiki.shapeoko.com/index.php/Carbide_Create_Basics#Engineering_drawing_example_with_rounded_corners